ErLLVM: an LLVM backend for Erlang

Authors:
Konstantinos Sagonas;Chris Stavrakakis;Yiannis Tsiouris
Affiliations:
National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece & Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden;National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece;National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Venue:
Proceedings of the eleventh ACM SIGPLAN workshop on Erlang workshop
Year:
2012

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Abstract

This paper describes ErLLVM, a new backend for the HiPE compiler, the native code compiler of Erlang/OTP, that targets the LLVM compiler infrastructure. Besides presenting the overall architecture of ErLLVM and its integration in Erlang/OTP, we describe the changes to LLVM that ErLLVM required and discuss technical challenges and decisions we took. Finally, we provide a detailed performance evaluation of ErLLVM compared to BEAM, the existing backends of the HiPE compiler, and Erjang.